Bahareh Rahnama (; born December 1, 1973) is an Iranian actress and author. She won a Hafez Award for her acting in ''

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'' (2008).

Early life

She was born on December 1, 1973, in Arak,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. Her father, Jalal Rahnama is a businessman and her mother, Parvin Ghaem Maghami is an

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. They moved to

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

in early 1980.

Career

Acting

Rahnama earned bachelor's degrees in Legal Rights and Persian Literature and a master's degree in Dramatic Literature. She also took

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and acting courses, and worked as a journalist. Her debut movie was ''Viper'' in 1991. Besides being a theater,

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and

film actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

, Rahnama is also a writer. She has collaborated in writing for ''The Nights of Barareh'' (2005), ''Mozaffar’s Garden'' (2006) and ''Shams-ol-Emareh'' (2009) series. Rahnama also published a book entitled ''Seven Nights in a Month'', which is a collection of her notes from her personal blog over 7 years. The Iranian actress has played roles in various movies, such as ''Tambourine'' (2007), ''St. Petersburg'' (2009), ''No Men Allowed'' (2010), ''Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus'' (2010), ''Laughter in the Rain'' (2011) and ''Sensitive Level'' (2013). She has also appeared in series, including ''The Story of a City'' (2000), ''I'm a Tenant'' (2003), ''The Man of a Thousand Faces'' (2007) and ''Goodbye Child'' (2012).

Political career

She supported

Mir-Hossein Mousavi Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (, ; born 2 March 1942) is an Iranian politician, artist, architect and opposition figure who served as the 45th and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He was a reformist candidate for the 2009 Iranian p ...

in 2009 Presidential election. She meet with

Zahra Rahnavard Zahra Rahnavard (; born Zohreh Kazemi; 19 August 1945) is an Iranian academic, artist and politician. Rahnavard is a university professor, artist, and intellectual who was under house arrest from February 2011 to May 2018. In 2009, Foreign Poli ...

, Mousavi's spouse in May 2009 and was one of the members of Mir-Hossein Mousavi presidential campaign. She is one of the writers of Chelcheragh, a weekly social magazine printed in Iran.

Personal life

She married

Peyman Ghasemkhani Peyman Qasemkhani (, born January 20, 1967) is an Iranian film screenwriter, director and actor. Early life He was born on 20 January 1967. He graduated from Ahvaz University in 1985. Personal life He was married to Bahareh Rahnama in 1992. T ...

in 1992. The couple divorced in 2016. Peyman is an Iranian screenwriter who mostly worked with

Mehran Modiri Mehran Modiri (; born 7 April 1967) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian director, actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter, host and singer. Career His various series, which have been broadcast through IRIB have set records in terms of viewership (an ...

. They have a daughter named Paria who was born in 1997. Paria has acted with her mother in two films, including Bano and Mard-e Hezar-Chehreh. Her mother, Parvin is also acted in TV series since 2004. Her former brother-in-law, Mehrab Ghasemkhani is also a writer and his former spouse, Shaghayegh Dehghan is an actress. Rahnama married Amir Khosro Abbasi in August 2017. In July 2022, Rahnama announced their separation on social media.

Filmography

References

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Bahareh Rahnama
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